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e-5118 (Health)

E-petition
Initiated by Tammy Farand from St. Albert, Alberta

Original language of petition: English

Petition to the Government of Canada

Whereas:
  • An estimated twenty-seven Canadians are diagnosed with a brain tumour each day;
  • Less than three in ten Canadians diagnosed with a primary malignant brain tumour survive five years after their diagnosis;
  • Brain cancer research is critically underfunded in Canada;
  • Canada is years behind the United States in approving new drugs and treatments, which could have an impact on thousands of brain cancer patients;
  • Even when new brain cancer therapies are approved, they are not always made equally accessible to patients across the country; and
  • There continues to be a shortage of brain cancer drugs in Canada, and some medications even become discontinued.
We, the undersigned, citizens and residents of Canada, call upon the Government of Canada to:
1. Increase funding for brain cancer research;
2. Work with the provinces and territories to ensure that drugs, medical devices, and new therapies are accessible to brain cancer patients nation-wide; and
3. Remove unnecessary red tape so brain cancer drugs can be approved more quickly.
Open for signature
September 4, 2024, at 8:31 a.m. (EDT)
Closed for signature
January 2, 2025, at 8:31 a.m. (EDT)
Photo - Michael Cooper
St. Albert—Edmonton
Conservative Caucus
Alberta